Jamaica Track & Field News & Updates

Several Jamaicans competed yesterday in events at the Brussels Diamond League meeting in Belgium. From a Jamaican perspective, the highlights of the day were: (1) Usain Bolt clinching the overall Diamond League 100m title with a narrow win over Nesta Carter (2nd) and Kemar Bailey-Cole (3rd); (2) Kemar Bailey-Cole doing a new personal best time of 9.97 seconds in that 100m race; (3) Yohan Blake dominating the 200m race, winning in a time of 19.54s ahead of his training partner Jason Young and (4) Kaliese Spencer being confirmed as the overall Diamond League winner in the women’s 400m hurdles race which she won.

Below we’ve detailed the results of all the events in which Jamaicans participated earlier today at the 2012 Brussels Diamond League:

Video of Yohan Blake, in only his 4th professional 200m race, running a meet record and world-leading time of 19.26 seconds to win the men’s 200m race at the Brussels Diamond League today. Notably, it was the 2nd fastest time in 200m history, just 0.07 seconds short of the 19.19 seconds fastest time currently held by Usain Bolt. More details here, video below.

Jamaica’s Yohan Blake ran a meet record and 2011 world-leading time of 19.26 seconds to win the men’s 200m race at the Brussels Diamond League today. Fellow Jamaican, Nickel Ashmeade, ran a personal best time of 19.91 seconds to place third, while Ainsley Waugh placed 6th with a time of
20.57 seconds. Mario Forsythe failed to finish the race. See below for complete race details.